CONSERVATIVE DRESS IN THE SIXTIES.

CONSERVATIVE DRESS IN THE SIXTIES. Jonathan Leaf argues that: “The dress of the 1960s was very conservative.” The miniskirt is the symbol of the Swinging Sixties, but Leaf is right. He says that many fine restaurants wouldn’t admit women in slacks until the 1970s. Kids, that’s right. When I was at Northwestern in the early 60s, women were not allowed to wear slacks on Chicago winter days unless the weather was so bad that the dean of women gave special permission for that day. There was a similar policy in effect for your mother in the Syracuse winters at LeMoyne through 1967, but there were no exceptions for bad weather. When the change came, it was dramatic and quick. The miniskirt arrived by the end of the 60s.